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Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you
— RIP, E.L. Konigsburg, author of some of my favorite young adult fiction. (via emilywalks)
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I’m only quiet because I’m worried that if you push me too far, one day I will open my mouth and I will scream so loudly, it will shatter and break the whole world.
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She often could not articulate her thoughts; they seemed like objects glimpsed peripherally, skittish and ungraspable, splinters and fragments that would not add up to much if bundled together; they refused to stand still for examination. For this reason, she was largely silent.
— Katherine Min, After The Falls (via creatingaquietmind)
(Source: booksandbrews)
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Still, the longer I was around her, the more I could see the colours of her mind and the recesses of her heart. There was a beast in there. But there was also a girl who was afraid of being a beast, and who wondered if other people had beasts in their hearts too. There was strength, and there was also just the determination to look strong. She guarded herself like a secret.
— Jodi Lynn Anderson, Tiger Lily (via weaverofstars)
(Source: livedancelovesingcry)
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Loving me will not be easy. Some days I will be a stuttering apology and you won’t know how to handle all the things I’ve done wrong.
— writingsforwinter (via wethinkwedream)
(Source: emceelizziegibson)
